The digital pictures that you can use on your business website or brochures may come from your digital camera, be downloaded from the Internet or be submitted by vendors. However, though your chosen image may communicate the exact message you want to convey, it may prove to be too large for the space you’ve laid out, in which case you can use Picasa to adjust the image size by reducing the pixels.

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Click the “File” menu on Picasa, and then choose “Add File” to display the Open dialog box.

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Browse to the location of the picture in question, and then double-click it to add it to the Picasa Library list.

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Click the file name in Picasa to select it.

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Click the “File” menu, and then choose “Export Picture to Folder” to display the "Export to Folder" dialog box.

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Click the “Browse” button to specify the location for the exported image. If you do not specify a new location, the exported image is stored in the Pictures folder under the Exports category of the Library folder list.

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Select the “Resize To” option under “Image Size,” and then move the “Pixels” slider to the left to reduce the pixels to a lower number.

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Click the “Export” button to export the image. This does not change the original image, which remains in its original location.

Warnings

Information in this article applies to Picasa 3.9. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions.

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About the Author

Aurelio Locsin has been writing professionally since 1982. He published his first book in 1996 and is a frequent contributor to many online publications, specializing in consumer, business and technical topics. Locsin holds a Bachelor of Arts in scientific and technical communications from the University of Washington.